From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 9 13:13:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FF637B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AAF43E3B; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g69KDc105843; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:13:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g69KDcn22296; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:13:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g69KDZ522281; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:13:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D2B43EF.955661FC@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:13:35 -0500 From: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Lippert Cc: joseph@randomnetworks.com, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta FreeBSD search engine References: <200207091944.MAA05507@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, all good thoughts.. One question: How can I determine a language for a page by looking at it? Eric Ross Lippert wrote: > > Actually, I think I am backpeddling, because it would be a shame not > to have alternative languages present. Sometimes, when I am desparate > for answers I find myself reading japanese just for the command lines > which are in them, and yes, sometimes that does the trick; and I > certainly have no problem grokking german or spanish when within the > limited domain that is Unix. > > Perhaps just check boxes for languages, so that one can check off all > responses with which one is comfortable? > > Another possibility is to use language as a MSB for ranking. That > is, all pages in the native or checked languages sort higher than > the other ones, with "relevance" or whatever being the lesser sort. > > That way, if I speak Basque, and do a search, if any basque document > is a good hit, it comes first, but as I scroll down, I will also see > hits in the other languages? > > Hmmm and while we are shooting for the moon, I wonder if little flags > could not appear by the pages, or maybe just the two-letter language > code? > > BTW I just ran a couple searches on things I was just curious about > like 'dhcp' and 'ports' to see what came up, and it looks like it has > done a good job of finding a good "spread" of pages on the subject, > with different themes than just many pages talking about all the same > stuff. It reminds me of teoma. > > Oh, and how about a second search entry box at the bottom of the page > like google does it? > > -r -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message